Anyone know of a good tutorial on using NFS V4 with SAP application servers

2012-03-27 Thread Foster, Ron
Hello listers, We started running SAP on AIX many years ago. Back when NFS V3 was the way to go. Some years back, we transplanted our AIX setup to Linux, and left it running NFS V3. At the time, we did not take the time to migrate our setup to NFS V4. (Things were running good enough

Re: SLES10 Kernels used on SAP application servers

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Perry
Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: > Hello listers, > > We are a SAP shop. We are at SLES10 SP2. On our SLES10 SP2 application > servers we have been using the kernel that came with SLES10SP2. > That is: 2.6.16.60-0.21-default > > The SAP OSS Note (81737) that lets you know what release levels are >

Re: SLES10 Kernels used on SAP application servers

2009-02-24 Thread Leland
Quoting Ron Foster at Baldor-IS : > > My questions are 1) Do people stay at the kernel mentioned in the OSS > note or 2) do they use the above sentence as permission to go to a > higher kernel level? > Initially, we had to battle with the Basis team until they found "that" sentence. So, we go wit

SLES10 Kernels used on SAP application servers

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We are a SAP shop. We are at SLES10 SP2. On our SLES10 SP2 application servers we have been using the kernel that came with SLES10SP2. That is: 2.6.16.60-0.21-default The SAP OSS Note (81737) that lets you know what release levels are supported says that this Service Pack level

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 6, 2008 11:34 AM, Ceruti, Gerard G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The remark to Mark was perhaps to quick off the keyboard , as one big > issue I am having at the moment in motivating the possible migration of > applications to zSeries Linux is the amount required and then the cost > of zSeri

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-06 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
s was eaten up by the memory cost . Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pieter Harder Sent: 05 February 2008 09:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Betr.: SAP Application Ser

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Perry
Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: HI Peter, Ron I am trying to get a feel if the memory requirements on say a pSeries of 3GB for a SAP APP server would be less on zSeries Linux under zVM, i.e. the physical would drop to 1 GB with 2GB as swop. Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you Hello Gerard,

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread David Boyes
> I hesitate to disgree with David, but that is not what I am seeing (see my > other post in reply to Gerard) > I use only 1 *one* GB of Xstor and even then page life is usually tens of > minutes. > Paging rate is moderate (100-200/s to 32 3390-3) > The situation David describes I know from z/VM 44

Betr.: Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Pieter Harder
> Oh, I understand that. Makes you wonder just what the devil is going on > inside the application. I have a fair idea. Lots and lots of caching, loading of tables into memory etc going on. > As usual, the ability to over commit memory and all the other sharing and > management stuff that z/

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Pieter Harder
I hesitate to disgree with David, but that is not what I am seeing (see my other post in reply to Gerard) I use only 1 *one* GB of Xstor and even then page life is usually tens of minutes. Paging rate is moderate (100-200/s to 32 3390-3) The situation David describes I know from z/VM 440, but t

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Pieter Harder
B as swop. Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pieter Harder Sent: 05 February 2008 03:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Betr.: SAP Application Servers Hi Gerard, I have only

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
e with you -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pieter Harder Sent: 05 February 2008 03:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Betr.: SAP Application Servers Hi Gerard, I have only one 700 system (our SolMan 400 system). Our standard is ERP

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've worked with one customer that was implementing SAP on >> Linux for System z. The memory requirements were obscene. Get >> out your checkbook. > > Mark: It sho

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ceruti, Gerard G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark > > So zVM was no help !, damm Sure it helped. Memory was going to be over committed as usual. It's just that SAP is so huge, that even with that, the memory requiremen

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread David Boyes
> I am trying to get a feel if the memory requirements on say a pSeries of > 3GB for a SAP APP server would be less on zSeries Linux under zVM, i.e. > the physical would drop to 1 GB with 2GB as swop. Very unlikely. SAP apps of any stripe tend to grab big chunks of memory no matter what they're ac

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've worked with one customer that was implementing SAP on > Linux for System z. The memory requirements were obscene. Get > out your checkbook. Mark: It should be noted that the memory requirements for SAP are huge on ANY platform, not specific to Linux on System z. Mind you memory on System z

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
Hi Mark So zVM was no help !, damm Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: 05 February 2008 06:47 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SAP Application Servers

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
rom: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pieter Harder Sent: 05 February 2008 03:51 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Betr.: SAP Application Servers Hi Gerard, I have only one 700 system (our SolMan 400 system). Our standard is ERP2004 which is 640 based. Everything run

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2008 at 2:45 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ceruti, Gerard G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > Anyone who is running SAP Application servers under zSeries Linux, bare > metal or zVM that could share some inform

Re: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
We run Netweaver 6.40. Ron Foser Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi All Anyone who is running SAP Application servers under zSeries Linux, bare metal or zVM that could share some information, SAP kernel 700,710 would be ok, in particular the memory requirements is of interest to us. Regards Gerard

Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-05 Thread Pieter Harder
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/05/08 8:45 >>> Hi All Anyone who is running SAP Application servers under zSeries Linux, bare metal or zVM that could share some information, SAP kernel 700,710 would be ok, in particular the memory requirements is of interest to us. Regards

SAP Application Servers

2008-02-04 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
Hi All Anyone who is running SAP Application servers under zSeries Linux, bare metal or zVM that could share some information, SAP kernel 700,710 would be ok, in particular the memory requirements is of interest to us. Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' b